Raymond Anselmo

This study looks at how sports motivation differs between first year and second-year college students at one of Manila's oldest private universities. The researcher used a carefully designed questionnaire, which was tested for reliability, to gather responses from students aged 17 to 19, with a significant majority being female (74.16%). The results showed that most first-year students were from the College of Engineering, while second-year students were mostly from the College of Pharmacy. Badminton, volleyball, and basketball were the most popular sports among the students. Both first year (53.77%) and second year (54.03%) students said they played sports about once a week, which reflected very high intrinsic motivation and high extrinsic motivation. The study found that sports motivation didn’t differ much based on whether students were in their first or second year, their age, or their field of study. However, things like gender, the types of sports they liked, and how often they played did influence their motivation and involvement

This study aimed to measure the effect of the type of sportsperson on the level of perceived competencies of basketball referees among 60 participants – 20 referees, 20 coaches, and 20 student-athletes – all of whom are from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season79 selected via purposive sampling. The participants answered a survey questionnaire, which quantified their level of perceived referee competencies in official games. Overall, participants perceived an above average level of competencies; referees perceived the highest and student-athletes perceived the lowest. For the specific competency aspects, referees perceived the highest scores in the technical and moral standards; however, they perceived the lowest scores in the personal characteristics. Results showed that there is significant difference between the perceived level of competencies of the referees, coaches and student athletes; thus, there is a significant relationship between the type of sportsperson and level of perceived competencies. The findings offer new insights into the previously unexplored perceptions of the levels of basketball referees among coaches, student-athletes, and referees themselves. The findings suggest that the perceived level of competencies among the different sportspersons involved in basketball games are unparalleled – there are differences among them. In the intense environment of a basketball court, there will always be wrong calls and mistakes that can be misinterpreted. This study suggests that basketball referees might benefit from a better understanding of their technical standards, morals and personal characteristics, and the way in which other individuals who are involved in basketball games, such as coaches and players or student-athletes, can make a valuable contribution to their understanding.

This research paper assesses the possible relationship between motivation and academic performance of student athletes and utilized a descriptive design as it investigated the association between two constructs (variables) of student athletes, namely their motivation and academic performance. The research is descriptive correlational research with sixty (60) student athlete respondents coming from the various varsity teams in a selected university in the city of Manila. The descriptive nature and design of the study would require that descriptive statistics and measures of association be utilized to analyze the relationship between the two constructs of the study – motivation and academic performance. The (SAMSAQ) was chosen as the research instrument to collate the necessary descriptive data, upon which a correlation analysis through the Pearson was administered. After the statistical analysis, the following were the conclusion of the study: (1) That there was a perfect positive relationship between responses of the student – athletes in the thirty (30) SAMSAQ items and their GPA’s; (2) That the relationship between motivation and academic performance of respondents, as represented by their mean scores of responses and GPA’s respectively are not of the same strength and significance for negatively and positively – structured queries of the SAMSAQ; (3) That the mean scores of responses in negative and positive impact queries of respondents and its relationship with their GPA’s, representatives of the measures of motivation and academic performance are incomparable as the Likert scale is inverted for the negatively structured queries, where behavior adverse to academic performance is sought.

This study investigated the difference in the sports involvement of the first year and second year college students in terms power and performance and pleasure and participation. In a sample of seven hundred seventy first year and second year college student students collected between the months of November to December 2019, in terms of power and performance during sports activities, first year respondents gave an average rating of 3.06 (Agree) while the second-year respondents gave an average rating of 3.07 (agree). The results suggest that the student-respondents were not after winning when they were involved in sports. Furthermore, first year respondents gave the highest mean score of 3.79 (strongly agree) in the item “I want to have fun during sports activities” while the second-year respondents gave the highest mean score of 3.75 (strongly agree) in the item “I believe that even poorly skilled students deserve the right to play”. Moreover, using the t-test at 0.05 level of significance power and performance with a computed t-test value of 1.54 and pleasure and participation with a computed t-test value of 1.170 were both lower than the tabular t-test value of 1.971 with the degree of freedom of 768. Therefore, the null hypothesis was accepted. Thus, there was no significant difference between the first year and second year college students’ sports involvement in terms of power and performance and pleasure and participation. The results suggest that students may be provided with various sports programs for competition or for leisure to foster holistic student development.

This research determined the correlation between the mindfulness, mental toughness, and motivation of 770 first year and second year college students and their sports involvement in one of the oldest private higher education institutions in the City of Manila. A researcher-made questionnaire was validated and pilot-tested prior to the conduct of the study. The results revealed that most of the respondents were 17 to 19 years old (75.06%) and they described their mindfulness in terms of attention and awareness as “Very High”; their mental toughness in terms of rebound ability, ability to handle pressure, concentration and confidence as “Very High”; their intrinsic motivation as “Very High”; their extrinsic motivation as “High”; their sports involvement in terms of power and performance as ”High”; and their sports involvement in terms of pleasure and participation as ”Very High.”